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FOR 5 FRESH FROM THE KITCHEN FRESH FROM THE KITCHEN SMOKED FULL RACK HALF RACK OF LOIN BACK RIBS OF LOIN BACK RIBS $1499 $799 2 Wednesday, May 6, 2015 The Oskaloosa Shopper MAHASKA YOUNG PROFESSIONALS Mahaska Young Professionals to clean park tenance,” said MYP for the Hewitt Jaycee spring and fall,” goals. Mulfinger also Other upcoming By JONATHAN R. President Dylan Park project, they will Mulfinger said. said that MYP will be activities are the disc PITMAN Mulfinger. not be partnering with Aside from the fairly busy during the golf course, which is The Oskaloosa Herald He said that as part of any sponsors. However, cleanup, Mulfinger took month of May. The about throwing a disc what MYP does is get he did indicate that the time to explain achieve- happy hour, which will into a basket. There will OSKALOOSA — involved in community organization as a whole ments, and future events take place on May 7 at also be a cookout. Mahaska Young service or public ser- has 10 sponsors that are the organization will be On the Green restaurant, “Overall, we are real- Professionals will be vice-related projects currently helping MYP starting. is the event that will ly happy that we are getting down and dirty that incorporate some in various capacities. “Our membership is kick-start the activities. meeting all of our goals. to help cleanup Hewitt sort of volunteer work. “We will be picking growing steadily. We “Anyone who is We are hoping that peo- Jaycee Park in This is one of the ways up anything that we see have 22 young profes- interesting in joining ple are getting connect- Oskaloosa May 16. that MYP gives back to that does not belong in sionals that are full MYP or being a board ed in the community,” “We want to spruce the community. the park. We are adopt- members in our group,” member, or just hanging he said. up the park. We thought Finances from MYP will ing the park as young he said. out with a bunch of City Editor Jonathan it would be an interest- be used to cleanup the professionals and it will With those numbers, young professionals, R. Pitman can be ing step for our group to park. be a continual improve- the organization is very can come out and join reached by email at do some deserved main- Mulfinger said that ment almost every close to reaching their us,” Mulfinger said. [email protected] ARTIFACT Do you know what this is? stamps before placing one usually dispensed too By DUANE NOLLEN them on envelopes.” much water or the bottle The Oskaloosa Herald Beth Stout wrote via leaked. But the Ideal email: “The artifact in Stamp Moistener seemed OSKALOOSA — This today’s Herald was used to to live up to its name. past week’s artifact from moisten stamps before The artifact is made of the Nelson Pioneer Farm is self-stick stamps were heavy porcelain, usually a stamp moistener. invented. I used one exact- white, but there are some Several readers made ly like this many years ago that are black. The base is guesses as to the identity when I worked at an insur- a small well, rectangular in of the artifact. ance office in downtown shape with walls about ? Donna McBurney Oskaloosa.” inch thick. The roller is wrote via email: “The Lois Nicholson also solid porcelain with a Artifact in Wednesday’s wrote via email: “Artifact stainless steel rod through shopper is a porcelain 4-29 is a water roller for the center. The roller went postage stamp moistener. stamps. Before stamps down into the well and The bottom holds water were self sticking they rolled up on the other side and you run the stamp(s) needed to be licked and with just enough moisture over the wheel which in this container had water to dissolve the mucilage turn moistens the back of put in it and then the stamp on the back of the stamp or the stamp so you don’t was rolled over the roller along the flap of the enve- have to lick it. I remember to moisten it.” lope and make it sticky. selling these in my mom’s Patricia Den Hartog The first adhesive office supply store when I Herr wrote via email: stamps in the United States worked for her in the 80’s. “This week thing in shop- were introduced by City I’m curious as to when per is a envelope roller.. Dispatch Post, a private these were no longer They had water in the base New York City carrier made.” and rolled envelopes over owned by Alexander M Dorothy Vos also wrote it.” Greig in 1842. City via email: “The artifact in Janice Henry wrote via Dispatch was purchased this week’s shopper is a email: “I have used this by the Post Office porcelain ceramic enve- many times. I work at the Department and the adhe- lope/stamp Montezuma State Bank sive stamps were contin- moisturizer/licker. Water and have used this many ued. was placed in the small times to seal envelopes. In 1907 Gustav square dish and when you Since we have new Sengbusch stumbled upon rolled the stamp or enve- postage machines now we a business – office equip- lope on the roller, it damp- have not used it for ment – when he spilt an ened the envelope or awhile.” entire bottler of ink over stamp for sealing. Several Nelson Pioneer Farm his barely completed companies’ made this Curator Kelly Halbert did ledger page of exacting product. They were avail- some research on the arti- record keeping. Frustrated able in several colors.” fact. She wrote: “Stamp by this not-so-uncommon Linda Russell wrote via moistener problem, he designed an email: “Today in the paper This simple office arti- inkstand that couldn’t spill you showed a ceramic fact is an Ideal Stamp if tipped. From there he water wheel. It was used to Moistener manufactured went on to invent a few wet stamps instead of lick- by Sengbush. The stamp other items; the one for ing them or for those of us and envelope moistener which he is most noted is in banking we used it to was a convenience tool for the Ideal Stamp Moistener. test your knowledge of Web site, Saturday. wet the money straps or the modern 20th century The Post Office finally historical artifacts. www.oskaloosa.com. The identity of the with glycerine to wet our office. introduced a non-destruc- The Nelson Pioneer People can make a guess artifact and the vote fingers when we counted Many of us remember tive self-adhesive stamp in Farm has about 15,000 on what they think the breakdown will be money. They come in vari- the damp sponge tech- 1992. Since that time, all artifacts in its collection object could be. announced in each ous sizes. You could buy nique to moisten stamps stamps and most spanning in age from the People can either Wednesday’s Herald the glycerine at the local with a sponge set in a envelopes have gone self- 1840s to the present. email their guess to Shopper along with the drug stores or just use small dish on the desk and adhesive and the need for a The Herald will take a [email protected] week’s new artifact. water.” was usually dried out by stamp moistener has all picture of an artifact and om or mail their guess to Herald Editor Duane Owen McKee wrote via the time it was needed. but disappeared.” publish it in the Herald The Oskaloosa Herald, Nollen can be reached by text message: “The object Then there was the small The Oskaloosa Herald section of the Oskaloosa P.O.